Juraian News Network

MWO Open Beta is upon us.  Is it ready?  No.  Regardless, this changes things for HJ.  For those HJs who have been in the beta for quite some time and stuck with it, and especially those with Founders access, thank you for your dedication to Jurai and our primary game.  Your experience and skill will be needed in the upcoming weeks and months to bring the rest of the house up to speed, and help them grind towards better unlocks, 'Mechs, and tech.

Along with the Beta going live, we wanted to open up 1000 kill names with all kills after open-beta counting.  It is important to remember, though, that personal kills aren't as important as your team getting kills and wins, so we are going to count every 4 assists as a kill.  Nevertheless, tracking team kills is tough, and we were hoping they'd leave the Stats so personal kill counts would be easy to track.  Sadly, just hours after after the new website came online, they removed the Stats tab from Profiles.  Thus, we will begin work on some sort of Stats Tracker, starting with kill counts.  If you don't already have one and want to start earning towards your 1000 Kill Name, take a screenshot of every drop score screen where any HJ on your team gets kills, and file them away somewhere.  (You can use FRAPS to take screenshots). We plan to have a section in your profile for adding to your kill counts (both kills and assists), hopefully in the near future.  You'll be able to add up your kills and assists from your screen shots and put them in once it goes live, along with the date of the kills.  Do keep those screen shots tho; we may need to ask about any days where you did particularly well in the kills scale.  We are using an honor system, and we hope all will play fair, but we might need to ask you to 'back up' and big hauls.

I would like to take a moment to remind everyone to save MC for Mech Bay Slots.  There are many 'Mechs you'll want in the future that aren't available now, and you'll need somewhere to put them.

Also, if you're thinking about a Hero 'Mech, please consider that YLW costs over $17 USD.

Now, I'm putting out a call to everyone to start scheduling and attending practice drops on a regular basis.  We have about 2 more weeks of being able to drop with 8 people, then for a while we'll be limited to 4.  I want us out there dominating, and getting our C-bills and EXP counts up as quickly as possible.  You folks that are looking for more to do, so you can get promotions and qualify for a samurai family?  Running some practices would be a great way to do that.

Also, we need to ramp up our recruiting efforts, and take the time to contact any idle HJs. Lance leaders: reach out to your lancemates that you haven't seen for a while.  I'd like that done within the next week.

Now, let's go show this community why they don't want to cross House Jurai.